Welcome to Stanford Global Currents

Global Currents is an international research project using visual language processing and feature modeling to study western and non-western manuscript and print textual heritages so far resistant to large-scale data analysis, as discussed here

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and Fellows ​of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Stanford Global Currents is an NEH-funded Project in collaboration with McGill University and ETS in Montreal, and Groningen University in the Netherlands, generating almost 200TB of structured data. Stanford's specific project focuses on British manuscripts from the long twelfth century in the Parker on the Web repository to determine how manuscript producers assisted audiences in finding their way around the folio. This project website contains information about our work and our anticipated results. Preliminary findings are available in 'Discovery' and 'Research', where we show the components of a manuscript's mise-en-page that are being investigated by the team.